Armourer
The Armourer's craft is all about skilfully shaping metal into the various forms of protective gear. It is brother to the Weaponsmith skill and related to Tinkering.
Contents
Overview
Crafting and repairing metal armour is performed with an armourers hammer on an anvil with smelted ingots.
Raw Materials
Smelting Ingots
Ingots can be smelted from ore by a miner / metallurgist who are also required to dig the ore out of a mountain.
Types of Ingots
There are five types of metal ingots that can be smelted by a miner / metallurgist and then forged into armour:
- ordinary
- copper
- silver
- gold
- blackrock
Note: vampyric and venomous ingots cannot be forged into armour, these are the exclusive province of the Weaponsmith.
How to make tinted Ingots
Blackrock ingots are made by alchemically treating the raw ore with various ingredients before it gets smelted into ingots. More on treating and alchemy here.
Crafting Items
Use (u) an armourers hammer on an anvil to craft items from available ingots in your inventory. Use a tinted armourers hammer on an anvil to craft tinted items. There is a skill premium required to craft tinted items.
A skilled armourer can make a full set of metal armour like plate mail, helm, gauntlets, greaves and boots. Due to the variable skill involved the armourer must make each piece separately and a novice must start with the smaller, simpler items first.
Item List
Here is a list of items that can be made from ordinary ingots (plus extras, if required) along with their minimum skill requrements:
| Item | Ingredients | Skill |
| field plate | Ingots | 75 |
| plate mail | Ingots | 70 |
| chain mail | Ingots | 65 |
| chain boots | Ingots | 65 |
| chain gloves | Ingots | 60 |
| splintmail | Ingots | 55 |
| chain coif | Ingots | 55 |
| chain leggings | Ingots | 55 |
| plate boots | Ingots | 50 |
| ringmail | Ingots | 45 |
| gauntlets | Ingots | 45 |
| greaves | Ingots | 40 |
| scale mail | Ingots | 35 |
| horned helm | Ingots | 35 |
| full helm | Ingots | 25 |
| tower shield | Ingots | 20 |
| large shield | Ingots | 13 |
| heater shield | Ingots | 5 |
| kite shield | Ingots | 0 |
The Armoury skill, like most crafting skills, can be repeated with F11
How to create tinted armourers hammers
All of the tinted armourers hammers are made by tinkers from a regular ingot and a pole, tinted ingots are not required.
